People have different tastes. It turns out that octopuses, squid and cuttlefish do too. These soft-bodied cephalopods have proteins on suckers along their tentacles that allow them to “taste” by ...

Nicholas Bellono, a professor of molecular and cell biology at Harvard University, was worried about his first octopus. “It’s not trivial to have an octopus in the lab,” he says. They're wily ...

Octopuses have many amazing abilities and characteristics; they have huge brains and can solve puzzles; their ink can disguise them and disorient attackers; and their ancestors are thought to be about ...

A team of molecular and cellular chemists and biologists from Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, has found that at least one type of octopus has taste sensors on its ...

Imagine if you could taste something simply by touching it. Octopuses can do just that with their unique "touch-taste" sense, made possible by the suction-cup-like suckers along each of their eight ...

Octopuses can taste what their arms touch, and scientists have figured out how. By Katherine J. Wu Should anything ever compel you to lick an octopus’s arm, keep this in mind: That arm has all the ...